 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1877 - 562 pages
...circular letter to the Governors, where, after announcing that it is for the United States to determine " whether they will be respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a Nation" Washington proceeds to name first among the things essential to national well-being, if not even to... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1877 - 558 pages
...circular letter to the Governors, where, after announcing that it is for the United States to determine " whether they will be respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a Nation" Washington proceeds to name first among the things essential to national well-being, if not even to... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...notwithstanding happiness is ours, if we have a disposition to seize the occasion, and make it our own, yet it appears to me there is an option still left to...the whole world are turned upon them: this is the time to establish or ruin their national character forever: this is the favorable moment to give such... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 1010 pages
...independency.' " This is the time," said he, " of their political probation ; this is the moment when the «yes of the whole world are turned upon them ; this is...moment to establish or ruin their national character for ever. This is the favorable moment to give such a tone to the federal government, as will enable... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - 1884 - 146 pages
...the cup of blessing is thus reached out to us, if we have the disposition to make it our own ; yet it appears to me, there is an option still left to...prosperous, or contemptible and miserable as a nation." Privileges, with him, implied duties. All that the patriots of the Revolution had done, all that the... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - 1884 - 144 pages
...the cup of blessing is thus reached out to us, if we have the disposition to make it our own ; yet it appears to me, there is an option still left to...States of America, whether they will be respectable 62 and prosperous, or contemptible and miserable as a nation." Privileges, with him, implied duties.... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Democracy - 1885 - 462 pages
...congratulating them as the acknowledged possessors of absolute freedom and independence, he added— " This is the time of their political probation; this...moment to establish or ruin their national character for ever." Lest they should allow the mutual jealousies and fancied conflicting interests of thirteen... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1886 - 78 pages
...notwithstanding happiness is ours, if we have a disposition to seize the occasion, and make it our own, yet it appears to me there is an option still left to...miserable as a nation. This is the time of their political probstion: this is the moment when the eyes of the whole world are turned upon them ; this is the time... | |
 | United States - 1886 - 190 pages
...notwithstanding happiness is ours, if we have a disposition to seize the occasion and make it our own, yet it appears to me there is an option still left to the United States of America, that it is in their choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous... | |
 | 1887 - 636 pages
...Washington in his letter to the governors of the several States wrote: "This is the time of your politico! probation. This is the moment when the eyes of the whole world are turned upon you. This is the moment to establish or rain the national character forever. For according to the system... | |
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Such is our situation, and such are our prospects. But notwithstanding the cup of blessing is thus reached out to us ; notwithstanding happiness is ours, if we have a disposition to seize the occasion, and make it our own ; yet it appears to me there... 
